Emory University

This guide to Emory University in Atlanta follows Dooley, the biology department's classroom skeleton who started publishing a gossip column in the Emory Phoenix back in eighteen ninety-nine, decades before a student first put on his cape, top hat and skull mask in nineteen forty-one. It traces the tradition that lets him crash any lecture and end class early with one wrong trivia answer, and the six black-clad bodyguards who follow him everywhere, a habit that began after Georgia Tech students kidnapped and injured him in the nineteen fifties. You'll also hear how his name changes every year, borrowed from whoever currently runs the university.